Word: guillaumin
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...Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with a diaphanous light suggesting England's Turner, for whom he had great admiration...
...year 1922 Great Britain "went down perceptibly " in art, while France advanced. He believe the chief talent in England today to be that of an American, John Sargent. After him come the English painters, Augustus John and Sir William Orpen. In France, where "the extremists are dwindling," there are Guillaumin, Signac, Lerolle, Flandrin, Simon, and many others. He bases his conclusions on observations made in Europe in connection with the open-ing next spring of the International Exhibition at the Institute...
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